EVEN BACK IN 1965 TERRORISTS PLANNED TO EXPLODE
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY,THE LIBERTY BELL AND THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. THEY
WERE ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO YEARS IN PRISON. THREE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
CONNECTED THEIR TERRORIST ACTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA.

INTRODUCTION:

The following are historical events that
occurred in the mid-sixties. They take on greater meaning today as we are
involved in a "war against terrorism". Thirty six years ago U.S. press
organizations reported terrorist activities with similar objectives as
those perpetrated on September 11, 2001: the destruction of U.S. symbols.
At that time the objectives were the destruction of the Statue of Liberty,
the Philadelphia Liberty Bell, and the Washington monument. These
terrorist activities reported in Feburary 1965 by these news organizations
(DLA, NYT, AFP ) connect the actions with the communist government of
Cuba. In the year 2001, as in years past, the United States continues to
officially include Cuba in the list of terrorist governments. Every day
that Cuba is on that list is another day that the U.S. officially accuses
Cuba of terrorism. It is for this reason, that in addition to the book
where this is published, we have decided to also publish this information
on the electronic magazines Guaracabuya and Guamá where this is available
to millions of people around the world.

Esteban M. Beruvides

FEBRUARY 18, 1965

New York Terrorists
connected to Fidel.

The NYPD and the FBI
upended a conspiracy destined to create a large-scale campaign of terror
in the United States, which would have started with the destruction of 3
national monuments: The Statue of Liberty in New York, The Philadelphia
Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument in the nation's capital.

The chief of the NYPD,
Michael Murphy stated that the main conspirators were 3 black male
extremists of the "Black Liberation Front" and 1 white French-Canadian
woman, a supporter of Quebec's independence from Canada. All four were
detained yesterday here in the United States. Murphy characterized all 3
men as firm supporters of Fidel Castro and Chinese communism. They are
Robert Steele Collier, 28 years old and leader of the group, Walter
Augustus Bowe, 32 years old, and Khaicel Sultan Sayyed, 22 years of age.
The 26 year old Canadian Michelle Duclos(*), resident of Montreal, is a
part-time radio and television host.

Murphy said that the
conspirators did not care if their "symbolic action" to be carried out
with explosives were going to cause the death of innocent people. The
objective of the campaign was to instill terror in the country's
population. Officer Murphy added that the group was also planning the
destruction of other installations in the United States. Without offering
more details Murphy revealed that the plan to explode the Statue, that
resides on an island in the New York bay, was conceived shortly after an
interview between Collier and the Cuban Minister of Industry Ernesto
Guevara Serna in the headquarters of the United Nations. Guevara was
visiting the United Nations at

the time. The
investigation revealed the purchase of a miniature replica of the Statue
of Liberty and that the conspirators decided to expand their scheme to the
simultaneous destruction of the 3 most visited national monuments.

A Police spy discovered
the conspiracy.

Raymond A. Wood, 31 years
old, black cadet at the Police Academy, informed that he had knowledge of
Collier, Bose and Sayyed for almost 1 year. Wood received instructions to
befriend the three and to cultivate a close relationship with them.
Shortly after his graduation at the academy, Wood was incorporated to the
Special Studies Section of the Police department and was assigned to act
as a spy within the Extremist group. Wood was able to gain the confidence
of the extremist group to the extent that he was assigned with very
delicate tasks.

Immediately of learning of
the terror plan the NYPD alerted federal authorities and Royal Mounted
Canadian Police. It was the Canadian Police that called this morning
alerting that Ms. Duclos and three men were on their way to New York with
a load of dynamite. The car was followed across the border and during the
rest of the journey. The young woman fearing that they were going to be
discovered decided to hide the dynamite in a remote area in the outskirts
of New York. Later, from her hotel, she called Wood and instructed him to
pickup the explosives. Wood called Collier to join him and both went to
retrieve the explosives, where the police was waiting for them.

At around the same time
Federal agents arrested the other 3 conspirators in Downtown New York. The
three men live in New York, Collier and Bowe are married and each have one
child. Collier, born in Boston, studied Electrical engineering in his
native city. Both men were members of the "Committee for the Fair
Treatment for Cuba", an organization Lee Harvey Oswald was a member.

At the time, the charges
were brought the District Attorney declared that Ms. Duclos had offered
her 3 co-conspirators a hiding place until they could find a way to seek
refuge in Cuba or some other communist country. This afternoon when
officer Wood arrived at the police station, commissioner Murphy asked him
for his silver badge and gave him the gold badge of detective. His
promotion from officer to detective in less than 1 year of service is an
extremely rare occurrence.

Interesting facts of the
case: Collier, who appears as the spokesman for the group, said that he
wanted to make a statement that would dramatize and promote the cause of
the black man in the United States and that he did not care how many
innocent people died. Collier went on a trip paid by Fidel Castro to Cuba
with a group of 84 students in August of 1964. When the group arrived a
few weeks later back at New York's airport the group's spokesman Charles
Berrard announced that the 14 blacks that participated were officially
organizing themselves under the name "Black Liberation Front".

There is surprise as to
the connections of the French-separatists; the same people that were
responsible 2 years ago for a wave of terrorist attacks in Montreal.
George Schoeters, who had been a guest of Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1960
and had worked several months at the "INRA", had a established a good
relationship with the dictator. Miss Michelle Duclos who was arrested as a
conspirator in the terrorist plan said that she was a member of one the
French-Canadian separatist groups.

Another of the detainees,
Walter Augustus Bowe, judo instructor, was described by the police as a
member of the "Committee for the Fair Treatment of Cuba" since 1960 and as
a person who has had a very close relationship with Castro regime since
the beginning of the revolution.

After an investigation
that was conducted at the time it was discovered that the "Committee for
the Fair Treatment of Cuba" was financed by the Cuban Embassy at the
United Nations. The Committee's first president Robert Taber, an American
journalist, fled to Cuba. Later Taber returned to the United States where
he resigned from the organization. He subsequently disappeared.

Vincent Theodore Lee,
black man from Tampa Florida, is the last known leader of the group. It
was same Vincent T. Lee who denied that Lee Harvey Oswald, president
Kennedy's assassin, was a member of the "Committee", even after Oswald
testified that he was the secretary of the New Orleans chapter and the he
had distributed Committee pamphlets in favor of Castro.

Sayyed, the other detained
terrorist, of arabic descent, was arrested last December when he was
picketing in the United Nations for a communist movement called "Pan-African
Students". As a result of this case, police authorities have tightened
security measures… (Edward V. McCarthy, Diario de las Americas, 2-18-65)

February 19, 1965

"Che" is linked to
conspiracy against National monuments:

Is "Che" Guevara the real
mastermind behind the conspiracy? "Unlikely scenario; to see Fidel
Castro's famed lieutenant inspired by the fanatical detonation of
explosives". This was the title of the conservative newspaper "Journal
American" and reflects one of the hypothesis surfacing after the detention
by the FBI of the four members of the "National monument Conspiracy".

According to the police,
Robert Collier, the brain of the group, who planned to dynamite the Statue
of Liberty, spoke to Cuban Minister of Industry "Che" Guevara during his
recent visit in New York. This was not the first time that Collier had
spoken to Guevara. Last year, Collier interviewed with Guevara in a trip
that he had realized to Cuba against the wishes of the U.S. State
Department. The plot could have designed during that first interview,
claimed "Journal American".

Additionally, since the
other 2 members of the conspiracy, Walter Rowe and Jalil Sayyed are,
according to police, suspected of being Castro and Communist China
sympathizers, the newspaper does not hesitate to declare the following: "It
is feared in Washington that these violent groups, following the path of
Mao-Tse-Tung, could spread terror in the streets of not only New York and
Philadelphia but also Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and other cities that
have a large black population".

This same hypothesis is
also expressed in a less alarming manner by the liberal New York Post,
that writes the following: "There exists a cynical struggle in the heart
of America's left to exploit the anger and the hopes of Afro-Americans.
(NY, AFP, DLA, 2-19-65, p. 1 and 12)

"The United States
Government is weak and we see them up close. I can assure you that we are
not afraid of that country"... "The nations and countries of Cuba and Iran
can put the United States on its knees".

The joint political will
of these two countries, considered to be "enemies" of the United States,
and the strengthening of economic ties are the focus of Castro's visit to
Iran.

According to information
to be published in his upcoming book Cuba: Anuario Historico 2001 Tomo
2 by Esteban Beruvides, Ms. Michelle Duclos, convicted former
terrorist, for transporting explosives in an effort to destroy U.S.
national monuments, is currently serving as the Canadian Representative to
Algiers.

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A CURRENT RELATED ARTICLE:

Attacking PQ for appointing former terrorist
was mean and hypocritical

By DON
MACPHERSON

Montreal Gazette
Saturday, October 20, 2001

The complete version of this article at:

http://www.vigile.net/dossier-monde/1-10/20-macpherson-duclos.html

Had McGee lived today, his
terrorist past would have rendered him unfit even for the lowly post of
non-resident representative to Algeria of the province of Quebec, at least
in the eyes of the present official opposition and perhaps future Liberal
government.

This week in the National
Assembly, the Liberals suggested the Landry government "reconsider" its
recent appointment of Michelle Duclos to that post in light of the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks against symbols of American financial and military
power. Duclos was once convicted of transporting 30 sticks of dynamite
from Montreal to New York for use in a plot among radical American blacks,
Castro supporters and members of the terrorist Front de Libération du
Québec to bomb the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia and the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital.

This happened when Duclos
was 27, a few years older than McGee was when he flirted with political
violence. That was 36 years ago, or about twice the time it took McGee to
go from youthful revolutionary to generally respected nation builder.

Plot Thwarted

As was the conspiracy
involving McGee, the plot involving Duclos was thwarted. She was arrested
upon her arrival in New York and received a five-year suspended sentence.
So she has been tried and convicted and has paid her debt to society. And
she has been law-abiding ever since. The Quebec terrorist organization
with which she was involved, the FLQ, no longer exists. Unlike a few other
former Felquistes, she has never tried to rationalize her past actions or
toyed again with violence. On the contrary, in 1973, she renounced
violence, as McGee did, and described her involvement in the bombing
conspiracy as "foolish" and "stupid." From 1976 until 1993, she held
several posts in the Quebec government, representing the province in
Toronto and Mexico City. But being a model of rehabilitation as well as
qualified for her job were not enough for Liberal leader Jean Charest, who
argued that the situation has changed "radically" and Quebec has new "obligations
to its partners." If he meant the Americans, they probably have more
pressing concerns these days than the appointment of a long-retired
terrorist to a secondary-level diplomatic post for the government of a
Canadian province.

The Liberal attack on
Duclos was not only "cruel" and "mean," as Premier Landry said, it was
also politically foolish. As the Liberals acknowledged, Duclos had also
worked for the government under them, from their arrival in power in 1985
until 1993. This allowed Louise Beaudoin, the minister for international
relations, to dismiss the Liberal criticism easily by saying, "If she was
good enough for you, she's good enough for us." One got the impression the
Liberals will not be pressing the matter further.